“We have identified big data visualization as a critical area in which we need to grow capacity to support the Hawaiʻi Innovation Initiative and UH’s own research aspirations,” said UH Interim President David Lassner. “Jason is one of the best anywhere, with a proven track record of successful innovation and deep collaboration with leading scientists within his institution and around the world.”

Leigh’s SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) software is the de facto standard for driving ultra-high resolution display walls around the world, which are fast becoming the lenses through which insight and innovation from big data science and engineering collaborations are brought into focus.

His most recent invention, CAVE2, represents the next generation of the highly successful CAVE immersive virtual reality environment that was also developed at the Electronic Visualization Lab. CAVE2 combines the benefits of both scalable-resolution display walls and virtual-reality systems to create a seamless 2D/3D environment that supports both information-rich analysis as well as virtual-reality simulation exploration at a resolution matching human visual acuity.

“I am looking forward to working with my new colleagues in the ICS department and throughout the UH system to apply cyberinfrastructure and visualization technologies to improve research and scholarship in support of human insight and understanding,” Leigh said.

“Jason is a world-class innovator with a remarkable ability to collaborate with his colleagues in academia and industry alike,” Smarr said. “Jason has been extremely helpful to us in San Diego, so I know he will be indispensable to Hawaiʻi’s goal of developing an innovation economy.”

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Woah. I am totally in awe of technology. With this advance of reality into micro studying capabilities. I can only burn all of my remaining brain cells just trying to think about all of the diverse ways this Cave will be used.
For example: mini and humungous versions.
Start with the earthʻs four elements being studied
The proof of A Creator vs The theory of evolution
The weather
Cancer research
AIDS research
Effects of starvation on a childʻs body, mind, heart, and spirit
Arthritis studies
Migraine headaches
Post traumatic stress disorder (studies physical, mental, psyche, emotional)
Diseases in Hawaiian waters, how we ingest the pollutants and become infected by our own waste
Arterial damage & hypertension
Diabetes
Birth defects
Bipolar personalities causes and effects
Depressionʻs causes and effects
Hawaiʻiʻs reef system and creatures that inhabit them
The different wave shapes as seen by surfers, what effects the total wave dimensions, raindrops, snowflakes
Whatʻs in mud, uses, why
Music: harmony, bass, symphony
Sound waves
Clouds
Effects of prayer on a suffering mind/person
Effects of music on people/plants/animals, and the ʻāinaʻs whole ecosystem.
Arenʻt they all co dependent? I believe God created a perfect world with a perfectly balanced ecosystem and universe.
It is therefore by mankindʻs insatiable hunger for “more satisfaction and control” that the world is being destroyed by
Chemicals
Diseases
Chronic illnesses
Obesity
Starvation
Plagues
Wars
Pollution
Ignorance
Anti-semitism
Hatred
Bigotry
Genocide
Poisons
Abortions
Denial
Rape
Abuse
Heartbreak
Neglect
Murder
Suicide
Experiments
Hidden agendas
Lies
Brother killing brother.
Maybe in “The Cave” therein lies an answer to mankind’s refusal to own up to causing the downfall of society as it is, thereby facing the TRUTH and finding the REAL solution. HHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!